Anna Shapiro

Take a tour within the visual elements of a place. Let my artwork become a portal for you to enter on a journey of discovery into the spaces of the familiar, ordinary, maligned or neglected. Specific material location is relegated to a place of obscurity. This absence of knowledge and history is a dislocation. The anonymity of the map is juxtaposed with recognizable objects. Here the realms of the domestic and the military come into play with human form and cartography. It is cosmic and cartographic, navigating spaces between control and disorder, real space and abstraction, macrocosmic scale and the tiniest microcosm. Most important is the integration of ecological systems, the intersections of human ecology and environmental ecology, linked visually in the elements of my drawings, sculptures and installations.